Have they found the plane? Breaking on Twitter

Users of the social network Reddit and Twitter may have found debris in the water, possibly linked to missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, as a Greek oil tanker steams toward the same spot after Indonesian reports of possible luggage in the water.

Richard Barrow has posted several images to Twitter of a satellite image that could possibly show debris from an airplane on the surface of the Ocean at coordinates 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E, after collaborating with users of Reddit over the last 2 days.

Most interestingly, on request of the Indonesian maritime authorities, a Greek flagged oil tanker was steaming to the same location identified by the Reddit and Twitter users late Sunday evening, March 16.

The area is at the same point authorities last lost verifiable contact with MH370, as the plane headed north-west towards the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Below are images posted to Twitter and Reddit by several users, including Journalist Steven Daglas, from location 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E.

18. Google Maps satellite images are often months old...

From the dumbass answer provided above, I found out that:

DigitalGlobe uploaded about 24,000 square kilometers (9,300 square miles) of high-resolution imagery to Tomnod, collected in some of the areas where the plane was originally thought to be. Users can access the website and scan micro-portions of the map, each about the size of a city block, tagging anything that looks like wreckage, rafts, oil slicks, or other signs of the aircraft. Areas tagged by multiple people get passed on to expert satellite imagery analys

It's not exactly real-time satellite images, which is what I was asking about - and which the dumbass reply provided above most certainly didn't answer - but they're current to within a few days. Good enough to try to find a plane missing for more than a week.

13. They've been using crowd sourcing for over a week

22. Gotcha...

I saw the OP and though people were able to access real-time satellite image on the web. That's something I hadn't heard of before.

The dumbass answer I was provided indicated that the crowdsourcing is being done on tomnod, which I learned is using days-old images, uploaded from DigitalGlobe, of only certain areas where the plane might be.